24:007:005 For if ye throughly amend your ways and
your doings; if ye
throughly
execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
24:007:006 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless,
and the widow,
and
shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk
after
other
gods to your hurt:
24:007:007 Then will I cause you to dwell in this
place, in the land that
I
gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
24:007:008 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
24:007:009 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery,
and swear falsely,
and
burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom
ye
know
not;
24:007:010 And come and stand before me in this house,
which is called by
my
name, and say, We are delivered to do all these
abominations?
24:007:011 Is this house, which is called by my name,
become a den of
robbers
in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith
the
lord.
24:007:012 But go ye now unto my place which was in
Shiloh, where I set
my
name at the first, and see what I did to it for the
wickedness
of my people Israel.
24:007:013 And now, because ye have done all these
works, saith the lord,
and
I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but
ye
heard
not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
24:007:014 Therefore will I do unto this house, which
is called by my
name,
wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to
you
and
to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
24:007:015 And I will cast you out of my sight, as
I have cast out all
your
brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
24:007:016 Therefore pray not thou for this people,
neither lift up cry
nor
prayer for them, neither make intercession to me:
for I
will
not hear thee.
24:007:017 Seest thou not what they do in the cities
of Judah and in the
streets
of Jerusalem?
24:007:018 The children gather wood, and the fathers
kindle the fire, and
the
women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen
of
heaven,
and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that
they
may provoke me to anger.
24:007:019 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the
lord: do they not
provoke
themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
24:007:020 Therefore thus saith the Lord god;
Behold, mine anger and my
fury
shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and
upon
beast,
and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit
of
the
ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.


